Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2191

Avoid everything that brings an ill name upon
you; goodness and truthfulness please the
whole world. A man is purified by renunciation;
let him give up idle things. Fault-finding, says
Tuka, is a false trait; it blackens a man’s character.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents